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Former Nebraska Football Players Earn NFL Opportunities
The 2025 NFL Draft took place in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Thursday through Saturday, and two Nebraska players heard their names called. Six others signed as undrafted free agents. Here is a list of each player along with some statistics from their last season at Nebraska...
Hail Varsity Digest | You Gotta Believe | 4/29/25
*Beginning this week, Hail Varsity Historicals will go game-by-game through Tom Osborne’s second national championship season, 1995. During a news conference the Monday before Nebraska football's 1995 opener against Oklahoma State, Thursday night in Stillwater, Tom...
New York Giants Select Thomas Fidone II in Seventh Round of NFL Draft
Tight End Thomas Fidone II was the second Husker to hear his name called on Saturday as the New York Giants took him with the third pick of the seventh round, 219th overall in the 2025 NFL Draft. https://twitter.com/Giants/status/1916247148351377479 The 6-foot-6,...
Philadelphia Eagles Select Ty Robinson in Fourth Round of 2025 NFL Draft
Nebraska defensive lineman Ty Robinson went off the board to the Philadelphia with the ninth pick of the fourth round, 111th overall, in the 2025 NFL Draft on Saturday. https://twitter.com/Eagles/status/1916170354105450993 Robinson is the first Husker to hear his name...
Rhule Rewards Bower Power
Go to X, or TikTok, or Facebook, wherever you’re comfortable on social media, and search for “Jacob Bower.” You’ll easily find the post-football-practice session during which Nebraska football coach Matt Rhule announces Bower will be placed on scholarship. After a...
Hail Varsity Digest | Osborne’s Wisdom Pays off for Nebraska Football | 4/22/25
Early in the third quarter of the 1995 Orange Bowl, undefeated and top-ranked Nebraska football trailed once-beaten and third-ranked Miami 17-7. The Hurricanes scored on a 44-yard Frank Costa touchdown pass less than 2 minutes into the second half. Now rewind to...
Nebraska Football Defensive Line All About Energy
Riley Van Poppel had praise for his new position coach, Terry Bradden, during Tuesday’s Nebraska football media availability. “Something he tells us all the time, ‘Energy is contagious,’” said Van Poppel. If Van Poppel is an example, Bradden is right. Van Poppel...
Hail Varsity Digest | Blackshirts Carried the Day for 1994 Nebraska Football | 4/15/25
Oklahoma was 6-4 when it played host to Nebraska football for a Black Friday game, Nov. 25, 1994. As usual, however, Tom Osborne took nothing for granted, even though Nebraska was 11-0 and top-ranked in both major polls — with a chance to win the Big Eight title...
Husker Football’s Tight End Tradition
Kansas State football coach Jim Dickey was commenting on Nebraska’s Junior Miller in the late 1970s. If that was “Junior,” Dickey said, he’d hate to see “Senior.” Actually, “complimenting” would be better than “commenting on.” Miller, listed at 6-foot-4, 242...
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